I wonder every single day if it makes sense to leave the platforms in protest, or stay in the belly of the beast and raise awareness from within.

Staying there is called “engagement” and it’s exactly what the platforms want. They thrive on your attention, report that as engagement metrics, and turn that into money. “Raising awareness” feeds the beast.

Nobody is surprised when shitty people running companies do shitty things. They stay until it meets a certain threshold of shitty, or they go to a competitor.

Drive engagement at the competitor instead of railing against the toxic site from within. People will move toward something better more readily than they’ll move away from something bad but comfortable.

“You have been infected with Calvinism. Cures range from education to lobotomy.”

Any two monotonically increasing or decreasing trends can be charted on two different axes to look like a near-perfect correlation.

This graph is a great example of how to present data in the most dishonest ways possible.

That game and $20 spent at Taco Bell made for many very good weekend nights.

“Do one thing well” isn’t a philosophy that ages out. Every time that is forgotten, you’re creating more tech debt. The effort required to retire tech debt is the biggest reason Windows is the travesty it is. Aging monolithic kernel-like monsters like systemd will be are a problem to be avoided with foresight and that simple philosophy.

Ignore it, you get C:Windows\System32\ntoskrnl.exe

This is a very accurate description of Bonk’s Adventure for the TurboGrafix 16.